Child benefit expectations too high for Treasury
Channel 4 News political Editor Gary Gibbon asks if the government can afford to change its child benefit plans?
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Child Benefit – Osborne wants to keep it simple
A lot of pre-Budget kite-flying going on. Always a danger that you raise expectations with exercises like that and then find you can’t deliver on them.
Spending review: Osborne’s child benefit sums
We were told by the Tories when they announced child benefit changes at their own conference that removing higher rate tax payers would bring in around £1b. But – hey presto – George
Child benefit figures revealed government’s other plans in error
When reporters were briefed about changes to child benefit, the Treasury accidentally gave us the wrong figures for how many would lose out and by how much. The figures they gave us included data
Scrapping child benefit for higher rate taxpayers
Well the distant views of the sunlit uplands promised at this Conference probably don’t look so sunny for the higher rate taxpayers right now. And they will be pondering how their loss of
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